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American Center for Mobility Proving Ground Operations Manager in Ypsilanti, Michigan

The American Center for Mobility (ACM) is a global development center for transforming the way industries advance safe, sustainable, and secure mobility technologies. ACM offers: an Advanced Mobility Proving Ground with test environments featuring specialized infrastructure, equipment, facilities and resources; An EV Charging testbed for testing EV charger performance; An innovation and technology campus with an industrial tech park for the co-location of mobility companies; Event and demonstration areas for showcasing mobility technologies and convening industry activities. The American Center for Mobility is open to private industry, start-ups, government, standards bodies, and academia.

Position:

Responsible for managing the operations a global development center for safe, sustainable, and secure mobility including the operational aspects of the facilities, proving grounds and other mobility test environments. This includes but is not limited to: Scheduling, Invoicing, Equipment, and Support Personnel for test programs.? The operations manager will be responsible for operations & maintenance, scheduling, IT/OT, order fulfillment, basic accounting, security, and custodial services. 

Responsibilities:

  • Operations & Maintenance
  • Oversee day-to-day operations of the proving grounds, test environments, facilities, and campus.
  • Manage proving grounds operations and maintenance infrastructure.
  • Identify operations and maintenance deficiencies and recommend improvements.
  • Develop operations and maintenance policies and procedures.
  • Ensure safety standards are implemented
  • Develop and implement standard test reports and operational assessments.?
  • Develop testing policies and procedures. Conduct evaluations of needs assessments and develop non-standard test requirements.
  • Oversee equipment maintenance and calibration activities including activities of both vendors and direct employees.?Ensure that all equipment are properly maintained with up to date calibration records.?
  • Manage procurement activities to support O&M within company policies and processes

     

  • Ensure that all consumables are properly tracked, and Hazardous materials are properly logged per ?

  • Manage all custodial activities on campus
  • Manage and provide oversight of contractors/vendors used to support the facility operations.?

Scheduling

  • Oversee scheduling, send weekly scheduling updates, and work directly with clients to create solutions to scheduling challenges.?
  • Manage weekly Sales, Inventory, Operations and Planning (SIOP) meetings to align cross-functionally on proposal development, customer order fulfillment, execution of grants and government contracts.
  • Coordinate with outsourced engineering service vendor to schedule and execute programs
  • Coordinate with research teams to schedule and execute programs

Security

  • Manage campus security including front gate and all access to the property
  • Manage track access control and ensure clients are monitored while testing on track features.

     

Financials

Maintain accurate, up to date, operating revenue forecasts

Achieve operating revenue targets and ensure all financial targets are achieved.

Manage within budget and proactively seek areas for cost reductions while maintaining quality of service

Manage ACM accounting clerk to coordinate financial information between sales (including grants) and outsourced corporate finance and accounting team.

Coordinate with outsourced finance team to ensure timely and accurate invoicing, provide feedback to clients when requested to justify invoicing, work with sales and partners to ensure clients are properly setup to be invoiced and

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